After years of conservation treatment at the J. Paul Getty Museum, during which layers of discolored varnished were removed and the nearly 500-year-old wooden panels were repaired, the newly restored Adam and Eve, a pair of paintings by the German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), are finally back on view. Cranach, who worked as a court painter for the electors of Saxony in Wittenberg, was deeply interested in the biblical story of Adam and Eve; he painted the figures over 50 times. In this life-size diptych, the couple’s pale skin glows against the dark boughs of the Tree of Knowledge. A blue-gray serpent coils above Eve. The paintings have a fascinating modern history as well, having passed through many hands in the 20th century, including a brief time spent in the possession of Hermann Göring, just after the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, in 1940. When the exhibition is over, the two panels will return to their permanent home at the Norton Simon Museum, in Pasadena. —Paulina Prosnitz